Welcome to the course.
Over the next six weeks, you'll learn so much about how to be clear.
Whatever we're trying to do, it's so easy to lose our way. To lose focus. Or get stuck. Or lose touch with why we're trying to do something.
But there are some eternal pieces of advice that, if we follow them, make it much easier to stay on track.
Sign up and each day you'll receive one piece of advice - and some short guidance on how to follow it.
I hope you love it as much as I do.
For now,
Charlie
Where the advice comes from.
If you've ever been to a meditation class or ever read a book on mindfulness, it's pretty likely that your teacher was taught by someone who was taught by someone who [insert a thousands years' worth of teachers] was taught by the person who wrote this advice.
But this isn't advice on how to meditate.
This is advice on how to get through the day.
Imagine you are one of the most respected teachers of meditation that ever lived.
You've spent your life teaching people how to live well, how to be happy, how to be wise and kind.
One day, you know you're going to have to leave your students forever and they ask you to give them one last lesson.
This is that lesson.
How to work with this advice.
If you like, you can just scroll down this page and read all of the advice.
If something catches your eye and feels useful, then - you're welcome.
But, damn it, advice is a lot easier to read than it is to actually follow.
I want to make it as easy as possible to follow this advice.
Sign up and each day you'll be given one piece of advice.
Each day you'll also get a short recording explaining how you might best follow that advice.
The investment of time each day is tiny. But over six weeks you'll feel it build up. You will be clearer.
The Course
Introducing the teacher
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Week one
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- 1. Until you know how to be clear, rely on those who do.
- 2. Until you are clear about everything, listen to those who are.
- 3. Don’t just learn how, but actually do what is needed to become clear.
- 4. Find places that make it easier to be clear and spend your time there.
- 5. Distractions make it harder to be clear. Avoid distractions.
- 6. Find people who make it easier to be clear and spend your time with them.
- 7. There will always be more to do. Don’t try to do everything.
Week two
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- 8. Whatever you are doing, strive for clarity.
- 9. Whatever you have learned about clarity, apply it to everything you do.
- 10. If you devote yourself wholeheartedly to being clear, you will feel the benefits immediately.
- 11. If you are true in your efforts to be clear, you will get what you need.
- 12. If you are not clear, then even getting what you want will be unsatisfying. So don’t try.
- 13. Don’t get caught in self-importance, but listen with a peaceful mind.
- 14. If you’re told something helps, but it makes you less clear, stop doing it.
Week three
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- 15. Profit and respect won’t make you clearer. Don’t pursue them.
- 16. Praise and fame make you less clear. Ignore them.
- 17. Even happy moments and good times with friends don’t make you clearer. Don’t hold on to them.
- 18. When you die, life on earth carries on. Think of more than just your life.
- 19. When you die, you will have to leave everything behind. Don’t try to hold on to anything.
- 20. When someone is not clear, be loving. Don’t make it worse.
- 21. Hate no one. Cling to no one.
Week four
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- 22. When someone is clear, don’t be jealous. Be inspired.
- 23. When someone is not clear, don’t point it out. Tend to your own lack of clarity.
- 24. When you are clear, don’t focus on how clear you are. Seek to be inspired by everyone you meet.
- 25. Be as loving as a child. To everyone.
- 26. Be loving in how you think, speak and act.
- 27. It’s easier to be clear in what you say if you only say what is needed.
- 28. Doing things you don’t need to do makes it harder to do the things you need to do.
Week five
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- 29. Doing things you don’t need to doesn’t help with anything.
- 30. Not getting what you want is a sign you weren’t clear when you started. So start by being clear now.
- 31. You have no idea how bad the consequences of acting without clarity can be. So always be clear about what you’re doing.
- 32. All the tension you feel comes from being unclear. No one else is to blame.
- 33. All the clarity you have comes from the example of others. Everyone deserves gratitude.
- 34. You can’t help anyone get clearer if you are not clear. So get clear.
- 35. Clarity is more helpful than money. Don’t prioritise money at the expense of clarity.
Week six
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- 36. Buying ourselves nice things doesn’t help. Invest in giving.
- 37. Beauty and happiness come from being clear and loving.
- 38. The world is full of drama. Don’t respond with anger, but with patience.
- 39. Your own drama is a symptom of not investing enough effort in being clear. Try harder.
- 40. Following distractions is a waste of your life. Improve your concentration.
- 41. If you don’t understand how things work, you will never be clear about anything. Get clear about how things work.
- 42. Don’t try to solve the dramas that arise when you are not clear. Abandon the drama and invest everything in being clear. If you learn how to be clear, drama comes to an end.
Following the advice
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